The Republican journal., 1887-10-20
Generalities.

Morton E. Post & Co., bankers, of Cheyenne,
have suspended; liabilities nearly half mil
lion.
A deposit of gold, yielding at the rate of $500
ton, has been discovered In Buckingham
township, Que.
The result Of the sham topedo attack on the
cruiser Atlanta in Newport harbor was vic
tory for the defence.
1t is stated that Michael Davitt has been
ma de Knight of Labor, with authority to Or
ganize assemblies in Ireland.
Robert Garrett has resigned the presidency
of the Baltimore T. Ohio, and the board of di-
rectors have accepted the resignation.
Thomas Courtland Manning. of Louisiana,
United States Minister to Mexico, died at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, Oct. II.
The Nobrara Cattle Company, incorporated
In East st. Louis, ILL.,, which year ago was
offered million dollars for its cattle, has made
an assignment.
The Hon. j. r. IIawley Is variously called
Senator, Governor and General, but his old
soldiers call him Joe" Hawley, and he saws he
likes that best of all.
man died 1t st. Louis the other day who,
so 1t is reported, once had an opportunity af-
forded him of buying plot of Western land
for $40 that now is worth $25,OOOOOO.
There Is much excitement at White Cliff, COL,
on account OF the suspension of the West Cliff
Bank OF that place. The house is branch of
M. +. Post a Co., of Cheyenne, Wy. II.
Miss Ethel Sprague, the daughter of Mrs.
Nate Chase Spraguc and the granddaughter of
the late Chief Justice Salmon p. Chase, is pre-
pairing for her debut on the theatrical stage.
According to the New York Sun Thomas
Mast, the cartoonist, has practically severed his
relations with liarper's Weekly, and is likely
to start Republican pictorial paper on his owl
account.
large Spanish force has been ordered to the
caroline Islands to punish the natives for their
rebellious acts. The American corvette Essex
has been ordered to protect the missionaries on
the islands.
a two-thirds vote against sympathy with the
Anarchists in the Knights of Labor General
Assembly is cheering sign. If the laboring
men did but know it, the Anarchist class are
their worst enemies.
One of the most disastrous storms ever
known on the southern coast of Mexico occurr-
ed recently. The city of Quelto, town of more
than 5000 inhabitants. was totally DESTROYED
and many lives lost.
One OF the most active members of the Inter-
state Commission. speaking of the law and
changes which might be made in it, Said II
for one. don't know what it means, and don't
think any one else does.'
Preparations for hanging the seven Anarch-
lists in the Chicago county jail have been begun.
carpenters are quietly at work building the
Scaod. The ropes have been purchased and
| tested and the suits and black caps ordered.
The consttutonaity of the new Michigan
Liquor law is to come before the State Supreme
rtn n11dr0
liquor dealers for a man,lamus to the Wavne
County Auditor to pay for the maintenance OF
! police in townships.
| for argument before the United States Supreme
Court in its fall session is the case of Mvra
Clark Gaines, who was awarded by the lower
| court claim for land in New Orleans worth
about six millions of dollars.
The Manitoba government has decided to Is.
| sue bonds of the province to the amount OF
10000, which will be placed for negotiation
with the lmperia! Bank of Canada. If money
enough is realized from their sale, work on the
| River railroad will he begun this fall.
DR.. +. o. Shakespeare. cholera expert
| says he has experimental with baclli from
| the cholera patients on the infected steame,
Alesia at New York, and finds that they develop
Ell exactly the same way rs those in Italy
| Spain and other cholera districts of southern
| Europe.
The New York sun says that the principa
sugar reiners of the country are negotiating fol
| the formation of sugar trust. similar to the
cotton. oil and rubber trusts. Firms repre-
sentins about s50,o0o,o00 capital, including
near'y all the leiners in America, except
| Claus Spreckels. lre in the scheme
Secretary Fairchild has increased the amount
which may be held by depository bank from
half million to million dollars, and has In
creased the percentage of funds which bank:
may hold upon bonds deposited. thus putting
about five million of the Treasury surplus int.
circulation in New York city alone.
The gift of Emperor William to the Pope OF
the occasion of the latter's jubilee will consist
OF jeweled mitre valued at $4,000. Empires,
| Augusta will present the Pope with costly sci
OF robes to be used in celebrating mass. The
Queen of SaXony's gift will be a basin for con
| >ecrated water containing $1,000. The Prince
Regent of Bavaria will give two stained glas.
windows representing Pope Gregory and Pope
Leo the Great for the Scala Regina in the Nati
| can.